Rescuers Interrupt Man's Meditations On Mountain

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December 24, 1996

DOLGELLAU, WALES — A Buddhist who climbed a Welsh mountain to spend the winter solstice weekend communing with nature was rudely interrupted when a helicopter and search team arrived to rescue him. Rescue workers interrupted their Christmas party to scale Cader Idris in North Wales after another climber told police he had seen a man there with a head injury. When the rescue helicopter picked out the man with a searchlight and guided climbers to him, the 50-year-old man told them to go away.